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The Equalizer
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2199
- IMDb #1390
- Google retired #618
- Rotten Tomatoes #2521
- Metacritic #2579
- Letterboxd #2275
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3261
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1936
- Metacritic Critics #2701
- Metacritic Audience #2265
- Criticker #2080
- Douban #812
- Kinopoisk #2254
- AlloCiné #866
- Trakt #761
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 45, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 59, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A man who has left his mysterious past behind lives a quiet, disciplined life, finding solace in his simple routine. His peaceful existence is shattered when he befriends a young girl under the control of violent Russian mobsters. After she is brutally beaten, he emerges from his self-imposed retirement and employs his very particular set of skills to deliver justice to her tormentors, systematically dismantling the criminal organization that harmed her.
Details
- Director
- Antoine Fuqua
- Writer
- Richard Wenk
- Based on
- The Equalizer
- Released
- 24 September 2014
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $55.0M
- Box office
- $192.3M
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